2 Flashcards
To leave one’s military post, or to run away from battles, often punishable by death.
Desertion
Slang term for Confederacy, also popular Southern song
Dixie
The selection of citizens for mandatory military service
Draft or conscription
The process of instruction recruits how to march and practice the military arts as a unit.
Drill
An often fatal disease of the human intestines, usually caused by unsanitary conditions of military camps and battle sites
Dysentery
An attack against the flanks of an enemy’s army, in hopes of eventually encircling it
Envelopment
The formal release of slaves from bondage, as it happened in January 1863
Emancipation
The sides of an army’s line in battle. A flanking movement is attacking the sides
Flanks
The search for food by soldiers often at the expense of farmers in a battle area
Forage
Paper money used during the Civil War in the North
Greenback